Cloud Platform Engineer (Fixed Term Contract)

“We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation.” Ocado Technology is putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global ‘ Ocado Smart Platform ’. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouse that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business. We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture . But don’t just take our word for it, have a look at what our people are saying about us on Glassdoor . What does the Cloud Platform team do? The Cloud Platform teams within the Private & Edge Cloud department, provision and maintain more than 15 kubernetes environments, have a very large portfolio, and is responsible for maintaining multiple UK and international CFC as well as supporting commissioning of new ones. To satisfy the recent reorganisation and meet all the company’s objectives, the team needs to reduce the portfolio (simplify the current solution, use fewer tools, etc), and clearly grow in size. The team has recently split into two teams with 5 engineers each to allow engineers to focus on different equally important priorities The mission of the team is to deliver an ever more reliable and scalable on-premise ecosystem for low-latency services, automation and edge devices that is fully adapted to the complete gamut of CFC sizes and geographies (UK included), while ensuring smooth transition to OCEngO cloud platform and providing uninterrupted service for existing sites What will you be doing Maintain and continuously evolve our Kubernetes Platform and provide visibility of the state and health of all components. Managing the deployment pipelines and repositories to deploy into multiple remote sites. Developing “operators” or similar business logic to automate the provision, maintenance and upgrade of core services. Constantly improving and refining all the observabilities (eg metrics, monitoring and alerting) of the platform to identify and resolve problems before they impact our users. With a focus on testability and reliability, you will be constantly architecting to design solutions that can be automatically deployed to numerous sites around the world. Supporting production systems as required outside of standard working hours and participate in 24x7 on-call rota. Please note that we are looking for a team of people to work on a Fixed Term Contract as well as one Permanent member of the team. We’d like to talk to you if you have: Strong experience in Linux Proven experience with containers orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, ECS, etc) Experience using Docker Used and have knowledge of common build tools, repositories and CD/CI tooling. Demonstrable programming skills with high level programming languages (eg. Python, Ruby, Go, etc.) Extensive experience in writing/supporting bash scripts and using Linux CLI tools Experience using monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana) Have good understanding of ‘Infrastructure as a code’, ‘Platform as a service’, ‘virtualisation’ concepts An ability to focus on the details to rapidly identify and resolve issues The inclination and ambition to “Automate Everything” A passion for open source technologies Strong sense of collaboration both within the team and across other infrastructure and development teams. A passion for developer experience, provide advice, training and mentoring to stakeholders to help them build the best applications and services possible and best leverage the infrastructure platform Comfortable adapting to change, actively contributing to the continual improvement process, and learning quickly in a fast-paced environment Kudos For: Demonstrable experience with TDD/BDD, design patterns and SOLID principles Hands-on experience of build pipelines and software lifecycles Proven commercial experience with kubernetes Experience using Service Mesh/Istio Proven commercial development experience Knowledge of SCRUM or other Agile methodologies What we offer you Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. Within our flexible environment we can offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and share schemes. Benefits include pension scheme, train season ticket loan (interest-free), free shuttle bus from Hatfield train station and of course, healthy Ocado retail staff discounts. We also have regular divisional socials, sports clubs not to mention the Ocado Technology Academy for a packed schedule of courses, conferences and events such as discussion sessions, conference briefs and external guest speakers. If you think you have what it takes to make a difference, please submit your application below. Due to the energising nature of Ocado's business, vacancy close dates, when stated, are indicative and may be subject to change so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Please note: If you have applied and been rejected for this role in the last 6 months, or applied and been rejected for a role with a similar skill set, we will not re-evaluate you for this position. After 6 months, we will treat your application as a new one. Be bold, be unique, be brilliant, be you. We are looking for individuality and we value diversity above gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, disability or union participation. We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and equally. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89829984